Lingya Zhang1, Jinlong Zheng2, Jingpeng Mu1, Yunqian Gao1, Gehong Li3. 1. Department of Nosocomial Infection Control, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Badachu Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100144, China. 2. Department of Medical Record, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Badachu Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100144, China. 3. Department of Nosocomial Infection Control, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Badachu Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100144, China. a13641262870@163.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The popularity of aesthetic breast surgery in China results in greater demand for assessing risk factors for complications and mortality. OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence and independent risk factors for postoperative complications following aesthetic breast surgery in China. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study on 4973 patients who had aesthetic breast surgery between 2012 and 2021 was performed. Postoperative complications include minor complications (incision healing impaired, hematoma, or fat liquefaction) and surgical site infection (SSI), which were recorded within 30 days after surgery. The follow-up time was expanded to 1 year only after prosthesis implantation procedures. Potential risk factors including age, weight, length of hospital stay, operation time, volume resection, incision location, and other clinical profile information were evaluated. RESULTS: Among 4973 patients who underwent aesthetic breast surgery, the minor complication rate was 0.54%, and SSI was 0.68%. Augmentation with prosthesis implantation had the highest SSI rate (4.23%), which was significantly associated with increasing age (relative risk [RR] 1.12; P < 0.01) and periareolar incision (RR 5.87, P < 0.01). After augmentation with autologous fat transplantation, postoperative antibiotic use (RR 6.65, P < 0.01) was an independent risk factor for SSI. After adjusting for weight, volume resection over 1500 g (RR 14.7, P < 0.01) was an independent risk factor for SSI of reduction-mastopexy surgery. The complication rate of reduction mammaplasty (1.01%) and gynecomastia correction was lower (0.75%), and there was no record of complication in mastopexy procedures (n = 161). CONCLUSION: The incidence of postoperative complications following aesthetic breast surgery is low. Risk factors for complications mainly include increasing age, perioperative antibiotic use, periareolar incision, and extensive volume resection. Much more attention should be focused on those high-risk patients in clinical practice to decrease breast infection. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
BACKGROUND: The popularity of aesthetic breast surgery in China results in greater demand for assessing risk factors for complications and mortality. OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence and independent risk factors for postoperative complications following aesthetic breast surgery in China. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study on 4973 patients who had aesthetic breast surgery between 2012 and 2021 was performed. Postoperative complications include minor complications (incision healing impaired, hematoma, or fat liquefaction) and surgical site infection (SSI), which were recorded within 30 days after surgery. The follow-up time was expanded to 1 year only after prosthesis implantation procedures. Potential risk factors including age, weight, length of hospital stay, operation time, volume resection, incision location, and other clinical profile information were evaluated. RESULTS: Among 4973 patients who underwent aesthetic breast surgery, the minor complication rate was 0.54%, and SSI was 0.68%. Augmentation with prosthesis implantation had the highest SSI rate (4.23%), which was significantly associated with increasing age (relative risk [RR] 1.12; P < 0.01) and periareolar incision (RR 5.87, P < 0.01). After augmentation with autologous fat transplantation, postoperative antibiotic use (RR 6.65, P < 0.01) was an independent risk factor for SSI. After adjusting for weight, volume resection over 1500 g (RR 14.7, P < 0.01) was an independent risk factor for SSI of reduction-mastopexy surgery. The complication rate of reduction mammaplasty (1.01%) and gynecomastia correction was lower (0.75%), and there was no record of complication in mastopexy procedures (n = 161). CONCLUSION: The incidence of postoperative complications following aesthetic breast surgery is low. Risk factors for complications mainly include increasing age, perioperative antibiotic use, periareolar incision, and extensive volume resection. Much more attention should be focused on those high-risk patients in clinical practice to decrease breast infection. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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